Alebtong, Uganda – When Lucy Everlyn Atim returned home after six years working as a child rights activist in South Sudan’s refugee settlements, her favourite shea tree was gone.Known locally as moyao, the tree had shaped her childhood. Every morning, she and her friends gathered beneath its branches to eat its sweet, creamy fruit before walking to school.Its disappearance was not an isolated loss. Across northern Uganda, many more shea trees had been cut down for charcoal.“I got concerned,” Atim, now in her mid-thirties and a climate activist, told Al Jazeera.“The destruction of shea trees is alarming. These trees need…